The offer was just “we’ll let you take neck bumps”.
off of mount everest.
That’ll probably be Darby at the end of this month.
(but lol tho)
aew offered nandos, obvs
was cheeky
I can’t imagine being taught front roles and where the hard cam is for two years would be a convincing offer.
Let’s get serious for a minute here… he was never going to end up in WWE. AEW is private and owned by a billionaire toy collector, any internet darling is going to end up in AEW by that fact alone. Then you have the fact WWE requires a much slower and safer style than Ospreay would ever want to do, man goes balls to the wall; something WWE doesn’t allow most to do. So my opinion is it was never going to happen. Hell, I question whether his body could pass the WWE health screening process.
Come now, you can’t start a statement with let’s get serious, and then proceed to “billionaire toy collector”.
Setting aside that part of your critique; WWE’s style isn’t that much slower or safer and because of the significant increase in the number of matches I would wager it tends to average out in the long run anyway. The injury rates for both companies are pretty high. And WWE’s health screening process OK’d CM Punk getting back into the ring where he immediately got injured again so i’m sure Will would have passed it just fine.
Come now, you can’t start a statement with let’s get serious, and then proceed to “billionaire toy collector”.
I can, I did, and I stand by it. Several signings have stated that WWE didn’t come even close to the offer AEW made, that’s the billionaire part. I have eyes and can say since its inception AEW has hired big or semi-big names used them for a few months and they just disappear or languish somewhere else on the card, you could argue we aren’t owed an explanation when people disappear and that’s true, but even WWE knows to run an injury angle to write people off for a while. So yes, I think it’s acting like a toy collector when AEW hires and then shelves people. We don’t have to agree on it, but it’s my opinion and I stand by it.
any internet darling is going to end up in AEW by that fact alone.
This is the logic that had Owens and Zayn as AEW locks a year ago.
The idea that Owens or Sami are still indy darlings boggles my mind as they’ve been well-established in the WWE ecosystem for 10 years now, but I guess I can see your point.
You said “Internet darling”, not “indy darling”.
I didn’t say it, I typed it… They are totally different things. /s
I did put it with that wording, so by that wording, I think you’re right.
I will even point out that Mercedes Mone’s manager person points out where I may be wrong… claiming that WWE made a generous offer but AEW offered more, not monetarily, but in terms of creative and mental help. source
So my opinion may be off base, I’m just not sold on my being completely wrong at this point.
